Firefighters examine smoldering wreckage of a C-130B transport plane on the grounds outside a JoJo's Restaurant in Evansville. The plane crashed into the restaurant and a nearby hotel Thursday. (1992 Jeff Atteberry/ File Photo) / INI

On Feb. 6, 1992, a Kentucky Air National Guard C-130 Hercules transport plane crashed into JoJo's restaurant and the adjacent Drury Inn in Evansville, and exploded into a giant fireball. All five crew members on the plane died, as did two employees of the restaurant and nine employees of a plumbing supply company who were attending a seminar at the motel.

Several others were hospitalized. A police officer who had inhaled smoke and toxic gases died 18 days after the incident. The guardsmen had been practicing "touch-and-go" maneuvers at the Evansville Regional Airport. A confidential Air Force investigation found no mechanical problems, no weather problems and no problems communicating or working with the tower, leaving pilot error as the implied cause of the crash.

The accident cost the Air Force $36.3 million to settle wrongful death, personal injury